The audience, 5G, AR and mobile trends shaping the next generation of gaming

The gaming industry has gone through dramatic changes in the last 10 years, but there are four trends that are likely to change things even further: the increased power of mobile gaming, the integration of AR in real-world environments, the growth of streaming audiences eclipsing player growth and 5G networks.

In this session, we’ll take a look at the history of gaming and the trends, products and moments that have driven the industry forward to this point. We’ll then look at how these four trends, supported by AI and data, are likely to impact the future of gaming.

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What this webinar will cover:
*A historical look at gaming revenue and the impact of mobile networks
*Analysis of gaming demographic shifts, and what could happen when “peak millennial hits peak gamer”
*Inside data on esports, streaming audience growth, and what we can learn from “stick and ball” revenue models
*Predictions on the next generation of gaming experiences, and when these trends will converge and disrupt the industry

Sales leaders are continually on the hook to make the current quarter outperform the last, and now AI and machine learning offers brand new ways to improve workflows and conversion rates. Artificial intelligence can increase your lead and appointments by fifty percent, reduce new rep ramp time by 30 to 60 percent, and increase win rates by 10 percentage points. It can ensure a rep’s time is all impact, all the time, by automating tasks, highlighting conversation best practices, and slashing whats essentially downtime by 40 percent — and even initiate contact with leads, qualify them, follow up, and sustain them. Leaving sales reps the time and the primed field to close the deal.

AI and machine learning technologies just keep maturing, making it easier — and smarter than ever — to plug in to a new way of doing business. To learn more about how early adopters have transformed their sales processes and enjoyed enormous gains in return, don’t miss this VB Live event!

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Attend this webinar and learn:

How to simplify tasks that take up too much of sales' time
*How AI will improve forecasting accuracy
*How AI can identify coaching themes from meetings based on what top reps do better than others
*How AI can identify which clients will be easiest to both up-sell and cross-sell
*How AI can identify best pricing and discounts for individual clients to avoid leaving money on the table
*The leading technologies to implement AI for sales acceleration

It’s do or die time: According to Gartner, the global business value from AI leapt by 70 percent last year, to $1.2 trillion, and it will triple to $3.9 trillion in 2022. So enterprises interested in getting on the AI train should jump now -- before you lose some major competitive advantages.

Of course, the biggest challenge for enterprise companies is figuring out the build versus buy question. There’s the build-in-house model of AI implementation, with open-source toolkits and expensive, but essential new hires. The number of startups offering full-service consultation, with set-up and service is proliferating, but who do you choose, and what do you pay for? And somewhere in between those options there’s the artificial intelligence as a service (AIaaS) approach — and again, the field of vendors is crowded with options.

There’s no easy, one-size-fits-all answer — but there are experts with real insight into how to identify your business needs, and where to get started implementing AI in the most cost-effective, profitable way possible for your enterprise. To get up front and personal with pros in the trenches now, register now for this VB Live event!

You'll learn:
*How to identify your AI needs
*How to identify your decision criteria
*The pros and cons of build and buy, and the best situations for each
*How to get a handle on the true costs of both build and buy

Enterprise analytics will trend toward a $70 billion market in 2019, now that business users everywhere are demanding immediate, universal access to data and reporting. With the advent of AI, data access and accuracy are being improved even more. But AI also brings with it responsibilities around governance, privacy and protocol. So on one hand, AI is helping prepping clean, rich data -- for example auto-completing or correcting data where it does not exist or is wrong, or even auto-suggesting reporting dashboards, equipping decision-makers to understand what reports to follow and what the data is telling them. On the other hand, this speed and cornucopia that AI provides brings with it a new urgency to make sure that data is all safe, especially given heightened attention across industries to concerns around privacy, bias, and fairness.

To learn more about how Ai is transforming enterprise analytics, don’t miss this VB Live event!

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Attend this webinar and learn about:
*The importance of clean, rich data and how AI is helping this
*Why AI dashboards will replace KPI dashboards
*How AI and analytics approaches differ across devices -- with mobile being so much more meshed within the Internet of Things
*How AI and analytics quickly surface problem areas in customer strategies and allow actionable insights in real time
*The importance of clearly-defined questions in creating AI analytics dashboards

Getting a ton of customer reviews is great. But if you don't have a way to analyze them for patterns and trends, you're missing out on some business-changing data. Artificial intelligence now offers a fast, efficient, and cost-effective way to unlock insights from your reviews, highlighting trends and customer pains automatically. That means you can focus your time on solving customer issues instead of chasing them down, and learn what it takes to delight, surprise, and keep your customers coming back.

Join this VB Live event to learn how AI, natural language processing, and machine learning can help you become more customer-focused, turn good feedback into great product, improve the areas that need your attention, uncover what really matter to your customers, and more.

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You'll learn:
*How to find themes in your customer reviews so that you can fix the real pain points instead of putting "band-aids" on each unhappy customer

*Steps to guide your business decisions around what your customers say they want, not what you think they want

*The importance of addressing your most common negative issues first to see an immediate change in your customer satisfaction level

*The concept of always improving your customer experience - searching for trends in your good reviews to turn them into great reviews

Most enterprises consist of a series of functional silos, and that may have worked until now. Artificial intelligence has changed the playing field dramatically, becoming a driving force for companies to approach customers and markets in new ways, address internal and external pain points, and gain competitive advantage.

But to harness AI as a transformative technology for your company, you need to depart from a siloed model to a horizontal approach. By automating diverse but connected processes, AI and machine learning opens up new opportunities for cross-functional optimization, knitting together and optimizing silos, and creating new efficiencies that were not possible before.

To learn how to squeeze out the promise of AI with a truly horizontal approach, build a strategic vision around elevating every part of your enterprise, and truly transform your business, don't miss this VB Live event.

You'll learn:

●How to identify areas of opportunity and look at how each of these areas connect
●How to put necessary support in place to make AI meaningful
●How to ask the right questions about your data
●How to collect the required datasets to truly transform your businesses
●How to anticipate the user experience
●How to create a rally point around what it means to employ this type of technology
●What decisions are required to implement at scale

As private and public clouds get less expensive, they’re expected to completely replace on-premises computing to make IT cheaper, easier to run, and more secure. But right now, most enterprises still have their feet in both worlds, using hybrid systems that are intended to make the lives of the CIO and the IT department easier. Unfortunately, the complexity often just adds additional cost and reduces business value.

So how do you harness the power of a hybrid system, with any cloud provider? Desktop-as-a-service is a virtualized interface that makes the complexity of your software completely invisible to your users, and allow IT to spin up a desktop instance with one click. It’s a world where IT no less complex but a lot easier to use -- and your users far more productive.

Learn more about how to address the complexity of your tech infrastructure and desktop-as-a-service when you join this VB Live event!

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In this webinar, you will discover:

*The concept of desktop-as-a-service including how it works, what it is, and where to get it
*How things have become complex, and how to measure complexity for your enterprise.
*How to understand the business value of dealing with complexity
Steps toward mapping out a course of action

Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant are changing the way consumers live and how brands engage with people. Witnessing the rise in popularity of voice-enabled digital assistants, many financial service providers are planning on incorporating or have already added this new technology into their systems. But while investment in voice assistants continues to grow, questions remain on how much these technologies can drive digital engagement, streamline customer communications, and build revenue.

Don’t miss this chance to join our discussion on voice and chat technologies and find out how they can be effectively utilized to create a more engaging and meaningful customer experience.

Join our webinar to learn:

• How conversational technologies are changing the financial services landscape

• What to look for in a voice-enabled solution

• Why context is key for the future of voice-enabled digital assistants

The gaming industry has gone through dramatic changes in the last 10 years, but there are four trends that are likely to change things even further: the increased power of mobile gaming, the integration of AR in real-world environments, the growth of streaming audiences eclipsing player growth and 5G networks.

In this session, we’ll take a look at the history of gaming and the trends, products and moments that have driven the industry forward to this point. We’ll then look at how these four trends, supported by AI and data, are likely to impact the future of gaming.

Registration is free.

What this webinar will cover:
*A historical look at gaming revenue and the impact of mobile networks
*Analysis of gaming demographic shifts, and what could happen when “peak millennial hits peak gamer”
*Inside data on esports, streaming audience growth, and what we can learn from “stick and ball” revenue models
*Predictions on the next generation of gaming experiences, and when these trends will converge and disrupt the industry

The quality of your sales force has a direct, accumulating, impact on your business as you grow – and building it from the ground up is the way you turn your business into a world-class sales organization. But it's not just about how many clients you're speaking to or closing, but how many clients feel like your sales team partners with them as true advisors.

Join this VB Live event to learn the essential strategies and key best practices for small and mid-sized companies to not just keep up with your competition but pull ahead.

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Attend this webinar and learn:
* How to effectively hire and train a top sales force
* What the smartest sales quotas look like, and how to set them
* How to create and implement business management systems
* What motivates sales teams, and how to take advantage
* What an effective sales culture looks like and how to build one

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries, products, and core capabilities by delivering dramatically enhanced experiences. However, the deep neural networks of today are growing quickly in size and use too much memory, compute, and energy. Plus, to make AI truly ubiquitous, it needs to run on the end device within a tight power and thermal budget.

Fundamental research, in AI as well as applying that research, is required to advance AI further and speed up adoption. In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

* Several research topics across the entire spectrum of AI, such as generalized CNNs and deep generative models
* AI model optimization research for power efficiency, including compression, quantization, and compilation
* Advances in AI research to make AI ubiquitous

When you add AI-powered customer service technology to your customer experience (CX) mix, you expect real results, and for good reason: A recent study found that companies that embrace AI to improve customer experience have higher customer satisfaction scores and generate more revenue than their underperforming competition.

But what happens when your expectations aren't met? Is the technology to blame? Your significant investment in AI technology doesn’t guarantee a positive return. To be successful, your organization has to be ready, and everyone from the C-suite to the contact center has to be on board.

Join this VB Live webinar to learn about the five biggest mistakes companies make when they bring cutting-edge customer service technology to their workflows, and how to leap over these pitfalls and into real results.

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You'll learn about:

* What AI actually is (hint: it’s not automation)
* The importance of buy-in from executives and agents
* How to approach AI implementation and measure success
* The impact of AI across the customer journey

Social networks today are undergoing a massive paradigm shift when it comes to content moderation. From tragic shootings broadcast live on Facebook, to YouTube removing comments on children's videos due to child predator concerns, social platforms are under fire from users, governments, and law enforcement to adopt better technology and strengthen their content moderation practices.

It’s not all bad news. Business leaders have also realized that accurate, efficient moderation, coupled with positive reinforcement, can increase user retention and encourage growth.

But who is responsible for enforcing these policies and practices? How did hate speech, abuse, and extremism become the "cost of being online"? And how can like-minded businesses band together to raise the bar and make their social platforms engaging, safe for all users, and ultimately, more profitable?

Join Two Hat CEO and founder Chris Priebe and veteran analyst and market influencer Brian Solis for an insightful talk about the changing landscape of online conversations and the role of content moderation. Social abuse and objectionable materials need no longer be the price of admission.

Register today for this free event!

You’ll learn:

* How to start a dialogue in your organization around protecting your audience without imposing on free speech
* The business benefits of joining the growing movement to "raise the bar"
* Practical tips and content moderation strategies from industry veterans
* Why Two Hat’s blend of AI+HI (artificial intelligence + human interaction) is the first step towards solving today’s content moderation challenges

Every founder starts with a big idea, but only 1 out of 10 see their idea succeed. So what’s the difference between the fintech startups that get off the ground and those that don’t make it out of the gate? What are the secrets of the startups that disrupt entire industries? This is your chance to find out how founders and VCs look at creating successful startups first-hand.

Our panel of industry experts will cover a range of topics, from getting started building your team, to the importance of finding an impactful mentor, and more. They’ll also answer questions from future startup founders in a Q&A. It’s everything you need to travel the path from big idea to successful startup.

Register for the webinar to discover:

• What successful fintech startups have in common
• The differences between being a solopreneur vs. being a co-founder
• Tips for finding and growing your dream team
• How to go from killer idea to disruptive startup

AI is moving beyond just the cloud. With powerful AI algorithms enabled on devices from smartphones to consumer machines, automobiles, robots, and more, we're unlocking a world of intelligent, connected devices that can perceive, reason, and take intuitive actions based on awareness of the situation.

The opportunities for always-on, intelligent devices that do all or most of their thinking on the device are enormous. To learn more about this innovative emerging technology that's already at the fingertips of developers, OEMs, and ISVs, don't miss this VB Live event.

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You'll learn:

* How AI-powered smartphone apps are igniting the consumer imagination – and why
* How on-device AI is changing the future of connected devices
* How developers, OEMs, and ISVs can take advantage of on-device AI processing
* The technology you need to drive the best performance of on-device AI

Customers choose to work with you not just based on what you deliver, but how you deliver it. Traditionally the big guys have had the advantage in resources and personnel. But with the digitization of customer communications, sales processes, and customer service, small and medium-size companies can now do more than catch up -- they can compete.

Affordable, accessible business technology is at your fingertips, and it can help you manage prospect and customer relationships in a way that feels personalized, accelerate business workflows and processes, and not just meet but exceed customer expectations while you boost your sales growth.

To learn more about how technology is transforming the way SMBs do business, and how to launch the strategy that ensures your company maintains competitive advantage, don’t miss this VB Live event!

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Webinar attendees will learn:

* How to deliver success across the entire customer lifecycle from lead to retention
* How to configure, price, and quote complex deals, fast and efficiently
* How to accelerate business by closing deals with instant sign-offs on agreements
* How customer-focused organizations win business with personalized experiences

The competition is coming. By 2020, eighty percent of SaaS players will move to a subscription-based model, which means your success strategies have to evolve — and that includes the all-important fundamental: how your subscriptions are structured.

Your subscription pricing and plan structure have a profound impact on subscriber acquisition and retention, and once you nail the formula, you'll see revenue increase. Do you choose an annual or monthly plan? Offer a trial or discounts?

This is where a test plan is critical. Combined with benchmark data, you can test and iterate your way to the right pricing and plan structure. And when important decisions are backed by comprehensive benchmark data, you’re far more likely to see an increase in adoption and revenue.

Join this VB Live event to discover essential SaaS benchmarks and best practices to maximize revenue, improve acquisition, and spur adoption.

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Attendees will learn:

* Important SaaS benchmarks by industry segment
* How to structure your SaaS subscription plans and pricing to maximize revenue and retention
* How successful SaaS companies use a test, learn, and iterate framework to optimize revenue
* The key metrics — and reports — to monitor for success and maximum LTV
* The results of an in-depth case study on SaaS testing and pricing

Cyber threats continually evolve, growing more sophisticated and aggressive, regularly overwhelming and bypassing traditional security solutions. With AI-powered software trained on large datasets of cybersecurity, network, and even physical information, cybersecurity solutions are increasingly able to detect and block abnormal behavior, even without a known signature or pattern.

Adding AI into the mix is a major turning point for cybersecurity. It’s growing clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning is the safest, and perhaps the only, path for cybersecurity professionals to really lock down their data and protect the enterprise. These systems offer the fastest, smartest ways to identify and analyze threats in real time -- and find the quickest way to taking them down.

To learn more about how to improve privacy and security, and how new AI-powered security can protect companies and their customers better, don’t miss this VB Live event!

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Attend this webinar and learn:

* How AI is defeating and preventing cyberattacks
* When AI analytics need to be deployed and for what reason
* How to build AI-powered tools that can assure consumers their data is secure
* Real-world AI applications and what they mean for cybersecurity

User experience is swiftly overtaking price as the most important competitive differentiator. That means wowing your customers at every point of interaction and engagement. And lately, new approaches fueled by AI and significant data produced by cross-platform experiences are putting UX under a new kind of microscope and helping to drive positive results. When harnessed correctly, AI really just means ultimate personalization. And this can reward you with loyalty, affinity, and word of mouth.

User experience design (UX) isn’t a guessing game anymore. Artificial intelligence is your superpower, and machine learning your secret weapon. AI helps you personalize the customer journey at every step dynamically, crafting unique, individual experiences that learn along the way, making them more relevant, more engaging, and more delightful.

To learn more about why AI should be the foundation of all your user experience design, and where to start, don’t miss this VB Live event!

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Attend this webinar and learn about:
* How AI supercharges the relevancy, elegance, and engagement of modern design.
* The ways well-known brands are creating intuitive apps with powerful UX supported by AI
* The relationship between effective design and a strong ROI
* Real-world successes and failures in AI-driven design

By 2020, 90 percent of businesses will have moved to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, seizing both the competitive advantages of digital evolution -- and the economic and strategic benefits of maintaining legacy applications on premises. But once your data moves outside your private architecture, you're facing a new world of potential attacks and security breaches that your current security practices just can't match.

Just for starters, not only will you need to implement effective RBAC to lower risk of unauthorized access and enforce mandatory multi-factor authentication, you'll also have to tap into the power of automation to validate security compliance baselines, detect unauthorized cloud config changes, and power self-healing infrastructure. Additionally, application-centric security is a must, with real-time visibility into application dependencies and performance metrics, plus an automatic micro-segmented security policy enforcement, and more.

To learn more about the advantages of hybrid cloud architectures, where your security needs shoring up, and how to best protect your enterprise and data with automated and application-centric security practices, don't miss this VB Live event!

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You'll learn:
*Why you need a single, fully tested, security-first infrastructure platform
*How to converge storage, computing, and networking
*A full understanding of security best practices
*How to protect against data breaches, unauthorized access, and other threats in a multi-cloud world

IT leaders look to technology as a business differentiator and rely on it to foster innovation. Enterprises have discovered that hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) can be the foundation of a modern, cloud-like datacenter. But don’t stop there — going beyond HCI delivers more savings, increases IT agility, and supports multi-cloud goals when you add virtualization as an integral part of your stack.

How do you harness the power of HCI and virtualization? Sure, there are a wide variety of tools on the market, but choosing the wrong HCI platform could limit your options in how you operate your datacenter or could impede cloud goals — including those associated with virtualization.

To learn more about the power of HCI and virtualization, how virtualization can remove complexity and increase efficiency, and how to choose the right HCI tool, don’t miss this VB live event!

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Attend and learn:
* How virtualization platform options on the market compare
* Why to consider changing virtualization solutions
* How to choose the right virtualization solution
* How to save thousands in virtualization licensing costs

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